Slightly harsh Yin, but only slightly. I think it's fair to say the anti-red scales have fallen from several eyes allowing some to see that POM is actually a player. This is no surprise to me.OneMore wrote:Seriously, POM one of the finds of the season? If you've only found POM this season you've clearly not been doing much looking.bazzaj wrote: Just to pick up on other points, to me POM and Toner have been our real finds of the season and really stepped up to the plate which has been massive to us.
Imagine Ulster's captain had been branded a 'find of the season' by someone on MF. Jeez, you'd think he was some sort of bit-part player on the Munster academy.
Welcome to three years ago.
For Toner on the other hand, I should have known better of course but despite Joe's faith in him I took him for a man with one thing only who Leinster were able to carry with their superiority to most at club level. His carrying & tackling in this 6Ns has surprised me & his ability to go 80 hard minutes as well.
Though happily it is a very rare thing, on the odd occasion when I'm wrong I'm happy to confess & I certainly confess to having completely underestimated Toner......................... just as long as the big streak of pash doesn't make me wrong again by being a 1 campaign wonder
Cian Healy, now there is a man becoming a monster in front of our eyes. When he first appeared, similarly to Toner, he had one thong that looked superb, his loose game but I wondered if he would manage at scrum time. He was a very young prop of course but boys oh he has developed into a quality item & he is still a juvenile in propping years. If Marty Moore & Jack McGrath develop at anything like the same rate, suddenly from a crisis situation, Irish props will have returned to respectability & better.
For all the slagging he gets here, Conor Murray is also progressing nicely though his back up are all veterans and in time we need to see if the young master at Connacht, Marmion is up to it, the sooner the better, hopefully as soon as the Argentina tests in June.
A fair few decent wingers about & Kearney & soon Payne as natural full backs, Ginger Prince backing up Sexton the natural worries have to be the future of the centres when BOD packs it in this season & D'Arcy possibly after the RWC 2015.
Up front, Rory has a few years in him, POC will do the RWC, Toner, Big Dan, Ryan & possibly Hendy looks ok and we still look well served in the back row with some good young guys getting close to standard.
If that lot were well coached - as we know they will be with JS - there could well be a bit of joy in watching Ireland for a while longer.